Waimea-based marketing agency expands

Dillon will be helping with business growth and developing optimized websites for sales and marketing. The announcement comes as the Hawaii-based marketing agency expands to Honolulu with a new office in Hawaii Kai. Agency president Laura K. Kinoshita, was named the SBA 2013 Women in Business Champion for Hawaii County earlier this year and winner of the prestigious 2012 PRSA Koa Anvil award for Integrated Marketing Communications.

The agency, founded in 2007, recently completed a large online community engagement campaign for the Honolulu Police Department in February which resulted in the department being named one of the 13 most social media friendly police departments in the nation (http://bit.ly/19kmPlt). (http://www.kinoshita-communications.com)

Hawaii Island clients include MacArthur Sotheby’s International Realty (http://www.bigislandreale.com)and Bite Me Sportfishing. The agency previously won a digital marketing award for The Shops at Mauna Lani located on the Kohala Coast.

The agency also serves clients overseas, including PAYDAY Workforce Solutions in Southern California (http://www.paydayonesource.com), Alzheimer’s Care Consultants in Miami and Tropical Images by Brilliant Studios in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean.

Agency founder Kinoshita is board member and West Hawaii coordinator for the Social Media Club, Hawaii Chapter.

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